Groups Building Block

The Groups Building Block manages user groups for the Rokwire platform.

Documentation

The functionality provided by this application is documented in the Wiki.

The API documentation is available here: https://api.rokwire.illinois.edu/gr/doc/ui/index.html

Set Up

Prerequisites

MongoDB v4.2.2+

Go v1.22+

Environment variables

The following Environment variables are supported. The service will not start unless those marked as Required are supplied.

Name	Format	Required	Description
CORE_BB_HOST	< url >	yes	Core BB host URL
CALENDAR_BASE_URL	< url >	yes	Calendar BB host URL
INTERNAL_API_KEY	< string >	yes	Internal API key for invocation by other BBs
GR_MONGO_AUTH	<mongodb://USER:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT/DATABASE NAME>	yes	MongoDB authentication string. The user must have read/write privileges.
GR_MONGO_DATABASE	< string >	yes	MongoDB database name
GR_MONGO_TIMEOUT	< int >	no	MongoDB timeout in milliseconds. Defaults to 500.
NOTIFICATIONS_REPORT_ABUSE_EMAIL	< email >	yes	Email address to send abuse reports to
NOTIFICATIONS_INTERNAL_API_KEY	< string >	yes	Internal API key to use when making requests to the Notifications BB
NOTIFICATIONS_BASE_URL	< url >	yes	URL where the Notifications BB is being hosted
AUTHMAN_BASE_URL	< url >	yes	URL where AuthMan is being hosted
AUTHMAN_USERNAME	< string >	yes	Username to use when logging into to AuthMan
AUTHMAN_PASSWORD	< string >	yes	Password to use when logging into to AuthMan
GROUP_SERVICE_URL	< url >	yes	URL where this application is being hosted
GR_HOST	< url >	yes	URL where this application is being hosted
GR_PORT	< int >	yes	Port where this application is exposed
GR_OIDC_PROVIDER	< url >	yes	URL of OIDC provider to be used when authenticating requests
GR_OIDC_CLIENT_ID	< string >	yes	Client ID to validate with OIDC provider for standard client
GR_OIDC_EXTENDED_CLIENT_IDS	< string >	no	Client ID to validate with OIDC provider for additional clients
GR_OIDC_ADMIN_CLIENT_ID	< url >	yes	Client ID to validate with OIDC for admin client
GR_OIDC_ADMIN_WEB_CLIENT_ID	< url >	yes	Client ID to validate with OIDC for web client
ROKWIRE_API_KEYS	< string (comma-separated) >	yes	List of API keys to be used for client verification
AUTHMAN_ADMIN_UIN_LIST	< string (comma-separated) >	yes	List of UINs for admin users used when loading data from AuthMan
GR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID	< string >	yes	ID of Service Account for Groups BB
GR_PRIV_KEY	< string >	yes	PEM encoded private key for Groups BB

Run Application

Run locally without Docker

1. Clone the repo (outside GOPATH)

2. Open the terminal and go to the root folder

3. Make the project

$ make
...
▶ building executable(s)… 1.9.0 2020-08-13T10:00:00+0300

4. Run the executable

$ ./bin/notifications

Run locally as Docker container

1. Clone the repo (outside GOPATH)

2. Open the terminal and go to the root folder

3. Create Docker image

docker build -t notifications .

4. Run as Docker container

docker-compose up

Tools

Run tests

$ make tests

Run code coverage tests

$ make cover

Run golint

$ make lint

Run gofmt to check formatting on all source files

$ make checkfmt

Run gofmt to fix formatting on all source files

$ make fixfmt

Cleanup everything

$ make clean

Run help

$ make help

Generate Swagger docs

$ make swagger

Test Application APIs

Verify the service is running as calling the get version API.

Call get version API

curl -X GET -i https://api-dev.rokwire.illinois.edu/gr/version

Response

0.1.2

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to this project, please be sure to read the Contributing Guidelines, Code of Conduct, and Conventions before beginning.

Secret Detection

This repository is configured with a pre-commit hook that runs Yelp's Detect Secrets. If you intend to contribute directly to this repository, you must install pre-commit on your local machine to ensure that no secrets are pushed accidentally.

# Install software 
$ git pull  # Pull in pre-commit configuration & baseline 
$ pip install pre-commit 
$ pre-commit install